Word: bertolt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Like Bertolt Brecht, whom he most nearly resembles, Horvath was interested in shopkeepers, merchants and petty shysters who either are trampled by history or must learn to turn tricks to survive. And like Brecht, Horváth was willing to work along plot lines that are shamelessly melodramatic and tearjerking...
MOTHER COURAGE AND HER CHILDREN by Bertolt Brecht...
GALILEO by Bertolt Brecht...
...whistle-stop in Arizona and see Indians at the station, even though they don't have feathers?how expected!" It was, in part, a ballet of fables and stereotypes. Steinberg's America, as confirmed by this trip, proved to be as much an invention as it was in Bertolt Brecht's Mahagonny: flat horizons broken by mesas or isolated, rococo-deco movie palaces; the tubular, metallic faces of Midwest entrepreneurs and their massive but wizened spouses, gazing blankly through their horn-rims: blazing signs the size of provincial churches; all-leg girls and cowboys teetering on their long heels like...
...recent years there have been plenty of playwright absurdists, psychologists, realists or surrealists. But when it came to the drama of ideas or a pure pyrotechnic display of language, there was only Tom Stoppard. And Stoppard is a pussycat compared with that tiger named Bernard Shaw. like his disciple Bertolt Brecht, Shaw regarded plot as the sentimental opiate of the middle-class theatergoer. In Man and Superman, he simply inverts the boy-meets-girl formula: woman wants man, man runs for his bachelor life, woman gets man. As it happens, the man, Jack Tanner (Ian Richardson), is an incendiary charmer...